Re: Wind
up at manager's

: : : In the film "Will
success spoil Rock
: : : Hunter?" someone says: "Fame hits hard at
:
: : first, but you'll get so you love it - or wind up at manager's." Que?
:
: : Anyone have a clue what they're talking about?

: : : Niklas

: : It's just
a meaningless, pointless, forgettable, badly written script fragment from an old
second rate 'B' movie: who cares what it means? It is, as Stephen Fry was recently
heard to say, 'A Fart of nonsense'.

:
: Nonsense Old Fart!

: Meaningless?
Pointless? Forgettable? Badly written? I don't think so - and not a 'B' movie
at all. 'Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?' was one of the first American films
to parody the public obsession with stardom, television and the excesses of the
advertising industry and corporate culture. Light-hearted and up-beat, it did
this more cleverly and with more originalty than most American films, then or
now.

: As for the origin of the phrase, I haven't had any luck finding a reference
to it. I suspect it may have been early advertising industry jargon, and as such
may be lost forever - unless anyone knows any New York advertising men - probably
in thier late 60's or early 70's.

: Niklas, I shall keep my eye out for you.

To be more clever and original than most American movies is no great achievement.
To be so clever and original that barely anyone remembers the movie, much less
its convoluted dialogue, is an epitaph any studio could well do without.